Improvement in fare-boxes



UNITED` S'r'rrrns yPATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES T.v ARMSTRONG, OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARE-Boxes.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent NO-l72, 944, dated February 1, 1876; 4application led To all whom may concern:

Be 1t known that I, CHARLES T. ARM- STRONG, of New Albany, in the county of Floyd and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare- Y form; B, the lock box or drawer in which the i'areis finally deposited. C' is the fare-rest.

This device vis composed ot' a shaft. c, hav- Y ing heads a b secured 0n its ends, which `heads are litted in recesses. in the sides of the box, S0 as to freely turn therein. Grooves vare madel in these heads tangentially to the shaft, and in said grooves and resting in rabbets in the shaft, are secured plates D of glass or other transparent material. An opening is lmade. in one side of the box, so as to expose yone of the heads, as b, which may be provided with characters corresponding in number with the plates D, and registering with lines on the side ofthe box, (see Fig. 1,) thereby serving as guides in turning the rest, and also as a means by which it may he set in any required position. e is a knob on and for turning the rest; d, a spring or other catch Working in the casing and against the head b, for the purpose of holding said rest in position and preventing its being turned, except in the right direction.l K K are glasses for exlposing to vicwthe money-rest. G is the fareslit, and N' a chuteleading from said slit to the rest. In the upper part of the box is arranged a lamp-compartment, M, having a chimney. H, and a glass, L. I" is the lamp of ordinary construction, and E ametallic cup in which the lamp is placed, and which serves July 24, 1875.

to receive the waste oil and to prevent smok`v ing of the box or glasses. Light from the' sent its plates to the chutes, so as to catch and hold the fare deposited. The rest is turned the distance between two plates, as indicated in any suitable manner, when this fare will be exposedto view through glasses K, and, the rest being again turned, said fare is deposited in the money-drawer.

It will be seen vthat the transparent plates are so arranged on tangential lines with respect to the front K of the box that the driver can see the deposited fare on the leaves on an incline'as the wheel is ,revolved toward him, and satisfy himself whether theamountis correct, or the money genuine before itV falls into thedrawer below. By'constructing the wheel as I do the money is held longer in view to the driver before it is deposited below than in any wheel which I am aware of. In

wheels where the plates or receivers are on radial lines the fare, after being deposited,

drops immediately `down to the shaft, and the fare can be seen but a shortitime bythe driver, excepting the edge ot' the fare.

I am aware that rotating fare-rests are not. original with me, and I make no claim to such l broadly; but v' v WhatI claim is v The `herein-described farerest composed of the shaft c, grooved headsa b; and tangential l transparent plates D, in combination with the recessedl sides of the box, substantially as specified.

' CHARLES T. ARMSTRONG.l

Witnesses:

FRANK PARDON, E. B.'HEWITT. 

